Exam 10: Neurology-Nervous System

Spinal traction with metal tongs in the skull is used to treat a fracture of the ________.

Which neurotransmitter is the body's own natural pain reliever?

The ________ is the functional unit of the nervous system.

Mental retardation caused by a defect in chromosome 21 is known as ________ syndrome.

Which is a neurologic test in which the metal handle of a percussion hammer is used to firmly stroke the lateral sole of the foot from the heel to the toes?

Convulsions or seizures are characteristic of the disease known as ________.

Patients with both expressive and receptive aphasia are said to have global aphasia.

The combining form radicul/o- means ________.

The middle layer of the meninges that surrounds the brain and the spinal cord is known as the ________.

A Babinski's sign is reported as being either ________.

The combining form pleg/o- means ________.

What is cerebral angiography and what is its purpose?

On autopsy,the brain of a patient who died of Alzheimer disease will show the characteristic neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques.

The TENS unit is a device that is used to control chronic pain.

Which word is a general category for any type of disease of a nerve?

All of the following are associated with pain EXCEPT ________.

Which is the medical word for a common headache?

Which type of cell produces the myelin covering around larger axons in the brain and spinal cord?

Mad cow disease is related to the human disease known as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

If the brain or spinal cord wants a voluntary skeletal muscle to move,this command is transmitted to the muscle by the ________ nervous system.